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* CardiovascularLove: The HeartSymbol cookie on the cover presumably represents familial love, given the family themes of the story.

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* JacobAndEsau: Cara always felt that her mother preferred her, and her father preferred Janie. It was all fair until the fire, but now she struggles to connect with her father.



* ParentalFavoritism: Cara always felt that her mother preferred her, and her father preferred Janie. It was all fair until the fire, but now she struggles to connect with her father.
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* HouseFire: It was started in the early morning by a spark from the toaster oven. It badly damaged the first floor, caused structural damage to the second, and destroyed all their belongings that weren't in a closed drawer or a box.

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* HouseFire: It was started in the early morning by a spark from the toaster oven. It badly damaged the first floor, caused structural damage to the second, and destroyed almost all their belongings that weren't in a closed drawer or a box.
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* CrisisOfFaith: Cara wonders how God could possibly let something so horrible happen, and spends some time as an atheist as a result.
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''Julia's Kitchen'' is a 2006 children's book by Brenda A. Ferber.

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''Julia's Kitchen'' is a 2006 children's middle grade book by Brenda A. Ferber.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Cara always felt that her mother preferred her, and her father preferred Janie. It was all fair until the fire.

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* ParentalFavoritism: Cara always felt that her mother preferred her, and her father preferred Janie. It was all fair until the fire.fire, but now she struggles to connect with her father.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Cara always felt that her mother preferred her, and her father preferred Janie. It was all fair until the fire.
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One morning, while staying at her best friend Marlee's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her eight-year-old sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.

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One morning, while staying at her best friend Marlee's Marlee Rosen's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her eight-year-old sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.

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* BigSisterInstinct: With Janie dead, Cara transfers hers to Janie's best friend Justin.

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* BigSisterInstinct: With Janie dead, Cara transfers hers to Janie's best friend Justin.Justin Wittenberg.


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* SignatureScent: Cara's mom smelled of vanilla from working in the kitchen. Janie smelled of erasers, which she collected.
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* HouseFire: It was started in the early morning by a spark from the toaster oven.

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* HouseFire: It was started in the early morning by a spark from the toaster oven. It badly damaged the first floor, caused structural damage to the second, and destroyed all their belongings that weren't in a closed drawer or a box.

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One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her eight-year-old sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.

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One morning, while staying at a friend's her best friend Marlee's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her eight-year-old sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.


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* AlliterativeFamily: Marlee, her older brother Max, and her mother Minnie.
* BigSisterInstinct: With Janie dead, Cara transfers hers to Janie's best friend Justin.
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One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.

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One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her eight-year-old sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.
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One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has burned down overnight, killing her mother, her sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.

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One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has burned down caught fire overnight, killing her mother, her sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.
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* ManlyTears: After the funeral, Cara is shocked to see her father crying into a pillow.
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* HouseFire: It was started in the early morning by a spark from the toaster oven.
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''Julia's Kitchen'' is a 2006 children's book by Brenda A. Ferber.

One morning, while staying at a friend's house, eleven-year-old Cara Segal learns that her house has burned down overnight, killing her mother, her sister Janie, and their cat Sport. Her father, the only survivor, retreats into himself from grief. When a cookie order comes in for her mother's catering business, Julia's Kitchen, Cara decides to try to rebuild the business.
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!!''Julia's Kitchen'' contains examples of:
* CryIntoChest: Cara buries her face in her maternal grandmother Bubbe's neck, and they both cry together.
* HeroicFireRescue: Attempted by Cara's mom, who escaped the house safely but ran back in for Janie.
* SiblingsWanted: Cara's maternal grandfather, Zayde, tells her how her mom ran away once to protest being an only child.
* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: Cara learns about the fire on Sunday morning, before breakfast. She doesn't eat again until Monday night.
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